I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Paul knew that, and here he, as it were, endows creation with consciousness. Why would they not allow such a pretension? Now there is no way in which God could lay a basis for peace with Himself more blessed than as He has done it. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? As a Christian we will experience suffering, because in reality we have become an alien in the world in which we live. Of it nothing has been heard till now. O how vastly different is the sentence of the word from the sentiment of the world concerning the sufferings of this present time! In the creatures Romans 8:19-22; Romans 8:19-22. But if it were so, He had not done with them. The adopting father went to the praetor, one of the Roman magistrates, and presented a legal case for the transference of the person to be adopted into his patria potestas. Think of the Christian experience. Reference-Verse. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (ver. The one who really counts is not condemning me, because. From verse 14 there is an advance. The glorious deliverance the creation longs for, 29. was beforehand decreed from God. Paul is saying: "You can think of every terrifying thing that this or any other world can produce. Consequently all turned, not on what man should be for God, but what God can be and is, as revealed in the gospel, to man. There is water as well as blood, and to that, not to this, the washing here refers. Using Gods solution and only His solution results in liberty and glory if we are the children of God.. God knew Israel, but the day came when Israel refused the destiny God meant her to have. Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Proverbs 9 Commentary. So, Paul is saying, it is the Holy Spirit himself who is the witness to our adoption into the family of God. The saints are heirs though in this world they are heirs under age; see Galatians 4:1; Galatians 4:2. God delivered His Son to die for my sins. H. G. Wells once said: "Man, who began in a cave behind a windbreak, will end in the disease soaked ruins of a slum." (ii) But there is another way to take it. When believers prayers are unable to express their deepest thoughts and feelings, the indwelling Spirit pleads to God on their behalf. Joint-heirs with Christ. Did Gentiles believe? He says that God's spirit witnesses with our spirit that we really are his children. My life is being ruled by the spirit, thus I am being led by the Spirit and in that I have then this joined together with God in the spirit as His Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit. If God be for me . If children, then heirs,Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17. The man who, being baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or Christian baptism, would assert any license to sin because it is in his nature, as if it were therefore an inevitable necessity, denies the real and evident meaning of his baptism. Part of the suffering experienced by creation is to remind man that all sin exacts too great a price (CBL, Romans, p. 131). How rich, how broad, how expansive is God's love for you tonight. All the creatures desire their own perfection and consummation; when they are made instruments of sin it is not willingly. At the moment creation is in bondage to decay. But, when he became a Christian, into his life there came the surging power of the Spirit of God, and, as a result, he entered into victorious living. 3. It would not have been righteous in any sense to have remitted the sins, until they were actually borne by One who could and did suffer for them. It is not a soul's overcoming its difficulties, but a sinner's submission to the righteousness of God. How I hurt to see my grandchildren suffer. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. He shall come, says one Testament, out of Zion. There is another emptiness in man and this emptiness only God can fill.Dr. 4). So creation is groaning. In the eternal purpose of God it was decreed that in the fullness of time He would come to be the Sin-bearer and Redeemer of His people - look up Isaiah 53:5; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 4:4-5; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 Peter 2:24. The creation was subjected to vanity (see verse 19 for information on this word as well as the word subjected). Even those that seek a place of separation to the Lord outside that which is now hurrying on souls to destruction are, nevertheless, deeply affected by the condition of that Christendom in which we find ourselves. Web1. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit ( Romans 8:4 ). We were at Adam having just eaten. This books message is directed to all those who love and study the Word. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? For the creature [that is, man] was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope ( Romans 8:20 ); When God created man He created him incomplete . He at the same time unfolds the essential difference between the righteousness of faith and that of law. If we take it that way two great truths are laid down. He can meet the sinner, but He justifies the believer; and in this, instead of trenching on His glory, there is a deeper revelation and maintenance of it than if there never had been sin or a sinner. But we have to note that that experience comes only to those who love God. It was the boast of the Jews that the law spoke about them; that the Gentiles had no right to it, and were but presuming on what belonged to God's chosen people. Not only all of creation, but ourselves also, which even have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body ( Romans 8:23 ). Not only does the created world do so, but so do we, even though we have received the first-fruits of the spirit as a foretaste of the coming glory, yes, we too groan within ourselves earnestly awaiting the full realization of our adoption into the family of God. For in My Father's house there are many mansions, and I am going to prepare one for you. In these words the apostle describes a fourth illustrious branch of the happiness of believers, namely, a title to the future glory. Hey, it is beginning to have its problems. But did this satisfy the apostle? Now, what do you picture when Jesus says that? If His grace attract, His truth humbles, and leaves no room for vain boasting and self-confidence. The Christian waits, not for death, but for life. Compare verse 6 (where the margin, not the text, is substantially correct) with verse 4. Now if I am living body, soul, and spirit, then I have no fellowship with God, as long as I'm being dominated by my body appetites and all. This he reckons. The New English Bible translates this phrase, "was made subject to frustration. The flesh to him was not a physical thing but spiritual. (i) Sarx ( G4561) literally means flesh. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its o Read For what remains unsolved by and in Christ? He talks about living according to the flesh ( Romans 8:12). The agreeableness of this to our present state, Romans 8:24; Romans 8:25. When you have got it in escrow you are feeling pretty good about it. It is the same form of expression exactly as in the beginning of Romans 5:1-21 "being justified by faith" ( ). But the Bible says that if your consciousness is separated from God, that is, you don't have a real consciousness of God, that you are dead, because your consciousness is separated from God. The spirit is groaning, waiting for that perfect work of God. The extent is what God Himself, so to speak, possesses the universe of God, whatever will be under Christ: and what will not? What would we have? I guess I am related to that baboon." This describes substantially the same condition as Romans 7:15-24. Hence it is wholly apart from the law, whilst witnessed to by the law and prophets; for the law with its types had looked onward to this new kind of righteousness; and the prophets had borne their testimony that it was at hand, but not then come. But the Jew might argue that it was an unjust thing in principle this gospel, these tidings of which the apostle was so full; for why should one man affect many, yea, all? He was regarded as a new person entering into a new life with which the past had nothing to do. It is the deep experience of the Christian that all is of God; that he did nothing and that God did everything. For as many as are lead by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.There are a lot of people today who are making claims to being sons of God. (c) He is at the right hand of God. Oh, how grateful we are for that love of God for us tonight in Christ Jesus. This designs the vanity and emptiness of the minds of the Gentiles, who were without God and Christ, and the Holy Spirit, without the law and Gospel, and grace of God; also the vain conceits they had of themselves, of their wisdom, knowledge, learning, and eloquence; likewise their vain philosophy, particularly their gross idolatry, their polytheism, or worshipping of many gods; together with their divers lusts and vices, to which they were addicted, to such a degree, that they might be truly said to be made subject thereunto, being under the government of these things, slaves unto them, and in such subjection, as that they could not deliver themselves from it; though it is said. Three times the symbolism of sale was carried out. WebEllicott's Commentary for English Readers. God's righteousness was now manifested as to the past sins He had not brought into judgment through His forbearance, and yet more conspicuously in the present time, when He displayed His justice in justifying the believer. Shall be revealed in us; not only revealed to us, to be seen, but revealed in us, to be enjoyed. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.". In this too we have the blessed connection of the Spirit (here peculiarly designated, for special reasons, "the Spirit of holiness"). For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. That the creature doth therefore earnestly expect and wait for the manifestation of the children of God,Romans 8:19; Romans 8:19. How can I really know that I am a son of God? God saw that there was no companion for man. Neither life nor death can separate us from Christ. Did the call of God. These things are matters of conscience, and depend much for their solution on the degree to which souls have attained. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off.In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. Stated another way, this term denotes powers which aim to subjugate man and separate him from God (Kittle, 2:275). We are told that our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it. And as that little remnant is ever sustained by the grace of God, it is the standing pledge of their final blessedness through His mercy, whereon the apostle breaks out into raptures of thanksgiving to God. This clearly takes in man, it will be observed; and this is his grand point now. Heaven is an inheritance that all the saints are heirs to. They thought I was dead. WebGreek Interlinear Layout for Romans 6:8 (TR KJV) Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. The chapter closes with the day of the Lord in its practical force on the Christian walk. But they that are in the flesh cannot please God.Now when we get to the book of Revelation, chapter 4, and God is there upon the throne, surrounded by the twenty-four lesser thrones of the elders and those cherubim, those angelic beings are worshipping the eternal God, the Creator, and are saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which is, which was, and which is to come" and the elders fall on their faces, taking their golden crowns and casting them before the glassy sea, before the throne of God. Weboutbursts of anger, factions, divisions, sects, 21 Envyings, bouts of drunkenness, carousings, and things like these, of which I tell you beforehand, even as I have said before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. All things here refers to glorification in eternity. God loves me good or bad. But there is more than this in Romans 4:1-25 He takes up a third feature of Abraham's case; that is, the connection of the promise with resurrection. He did not grudgingly give up His Son but gave Him up to die on the cross. Romans 3:20 Because out of the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Their present state is a state of education and preparation for the inheritance. Some day there would come The Day of the Lord. Man can never be satisfied until he is in union with God. And whenever my children would get a fever and become listless and sick, whatever, it would so tear me up inside to see them in that condition. There may be inestimable advantages, all of which we may not see, in subjecting the Christian to a process of training in overcoming his sins, and in producing confidence in God, before he is admitted to his state of final rest. Those who live according to the dictates of the Spirit are absorbed in the things of the Spirit. The whole species of creatures is designed for, and is hastening to, a total dissolution by fire. We groan earnestly desiring to be delivered" ( 2 Corinthians 5:1-2 ). Hence the depravity of the heathen found little or no cheek from conscience, because it was bound up with all that took the shape of God before their mind. On both sides therefore the apostle is meeting the grand points he had at heart to demonstrate from their own Scriptures. But even as He spoke to Abraham concerning his seed in the past tense, because He knew that Abraham was going to have a son whom He did foreknow. Ellicott's By the cross God has a deeper moral glory than ever a glory that He thus acquired, if I may so say. Now, that suffering saints may have strong supports and consolations from their hopes of heaven, he holds the balance (Romans 8:18; Romans 8:18), in a comparison between the two, which is observable. Christ's work of redemption deserves that God should act as He does in the gospel. His witness to our spirit is this, that we are children of God. Consequently it never reaches the perfection that He originally intended it to achieve. Plug in, Turn on and Be Enlightened! Proverbs 9:1-6; Proverbs 22 Commentary. As He has made all, so He is heir of all. More than once Paul speaks of these angels ( Ephesians 1:21; Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:10; Colossians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 15:24). Then, from ver. What, then, is its voice? And to this agreed the testimony of the prophet. But when I become inverted, born again by the Spirit of God, and I am spirit, soul, and body, now the superior Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit is joined with the inferior trinity of man. The life that is dominated by the desires and activities of sinful human nature is on the way to death. Nevertheless the apostle does not expressly mention heaven here. . He really means human nature in all its weakness and he means human in its vulnerability to sin. Though they were willingly vain, yet they were not willingly made subject to vanity; they willingly went into idolatrous and other evil practices, but the devil made them subject, or slaves unto them; he led them captive at his will, and powerfully worked in them, by divine permission, so that they became vassals to him, and to their lusts; for he seems to be designed, "by him who hath subjected the same", and not Adam, by whom sin entered into the world. The King James Version rendering is famous. he died for me, yea rather, is risen again, in fact he is at the right hand of the Father, interceding for me ( Romans 8:34 ). How I hurt to see my children suffer. The soul therefore now is represented for the first time as already justified and in possession of peace with God. . There is a general outcry of the whole creation against the sin of man: the stone crieth out of the wall (Habakkuk 2:11), the land cries, Job 31:38. It is a life which is such a steady progress to God that the final transition of death is only a natural and inevitable stage on the way. It's transient. But if children, we are His heirs. For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God ( Romans 8:19 ). We cannot know our own real need; we cannot with our finite minds grasp God's plan; in the last analysis all that we can bring to God is an inarticulate sigh which the Spirit will translate to God for us. Has God then no delivering power from this? [The mind of the flesh, or] the carnal mind is death ( Romans 8:6 ); That is, spiritual death, which biblically would be interpreted as separation of man's consciousness from God. It surpasses all that we have yet seen and known: present vouchsafements are sweet and precious, very precious, very sweet; but there is something to come, something behind the curtain, that will outshine all. 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"For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (ver. The one who really counts is not condemning me, because. From verse 14 there is an advance. The glorious deliverance the creation longs for, 29. was beforehand decreed from God. Paul is saying: "You can think of every terrifying thing that this or any other world can produce. Consequently all turned, not on what man should be for God, but what God can be and is, as revealed in the gospel, to man. There is water as well as blood, and to that, not to this, the washing here refers. Using Gods solution and only His solution results in liberty and glory if we are the children of God.. God knew Israel, but the day came when Israel refused the destiny God meant her to have. Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Proverbs 9 Commentary. So, Paul is saying, it is the Holy Spirit himself who is the witness to our adoption into the family of God. The saints are heirs though in this world they are heirs under age; see Galatians 4:1; Galatians 4:2. God delivered His Son to die for my sins. H. G. Wells once said: "Man, who began in a cave behind a windbreak, will end in the disease soaked ruins of a slum." (ii) But there is another way to take it. When believers prayers are unable to express their deepest thoughts and feelings, the indwelling Spirit pleads to God on their behalf. Joint-heirs with Christ. Did Gentiles believe? He says that God's spirit witnesses with our spirit that we really are his children. My life is being ruled by the spirit, thus I am being led by the Spirit and in that I have then this joined together with God in the spirit as His Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit. If God be for me . If children, then heirs,Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17. The man who, being baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or Christian baptism, would assert any license to sin because it is in his nature, as if it were therefore an inevitable necessity, denies the real and evident meaning of his baptism. Part of the suffering experienced by creation is to remind man that all sin exacts too great a price (CBL, Romans, p. 131). How rich, how broad, how expansive is God's love for you tonight. All the creatures desire their own perfection and consummation; when they are made instruments of sin it is not willingly. At the moment creation is in bondage to decay. But, when he became a Christian, into his life there came the surging power of the Spirit of God, and, as a result, he entered into victorious living. 3. It would not have been righteous in any sense to have remitted the sins, until they were actually borne by One who could and did suffer for them. It is not a soul's overcoming its difficulties, but a sinner's submission to the righteousness of God. How I hurt to see my grandchildren suffer. Nevertheless, what is in nowise the same as what was or what will be. He shall come, says one Testament, out of Zion. There is another emptiness in man and this emptiness only God can fill.Dr. 4). So creation is groaning. In the eternal purpose of God it was decreed that in the fullness of time He would come to be the Sin-bearer and Redeemer of His people - look up Isaiah 53:5; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 4:4-5; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 Peter 2:24. The creation was subjected to vanity (see verse 19 for information on this word as well as the word subjected). Even those that seek a place of separation to the Lord outside that which is now hurrying on souls to destruction are, nevertheless, deeply affected by the condition of that Christendom in which we find ourselves. Web1. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit ( Romans 8:4 ). We were at Adam having just eaten. This books message is directed to all those who love and study the Word. Has He mercy only for guilty Israel? For the creature [that is, man] was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope ( Romans 8:20 ); When God created man He created him incomplete . He at the same time unfolds the essential difference between the righteousness of faith and that of law. If we take it that way two great truths are laid down.